World News: Indian immigrant held in wife's brutal murder
18-June-2004

Washington, An Indian software professional has been taken into custody on charges of brutally murdering his wife, police said.

Praveen Mandanapu, 32, who works for a Herndon, Virginia-based company, allegedly murdered his wife, dismembered her body and stuffed it in a suitcase before dumping it in a trash bin.

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He will be charged with first-degree murder, police said.

A Loudon (Virginia) county official found Mandanapu unconscious in his car Wednesday afternoon on a local road. He was taken to a hospital and treated. But several hours later, police discovered he was the wanted man in the crime.

The hunt for the husband began after a maintenance worker found the suitcase with the remains of Divya Mandanapu Monday. She was reported missing by her colleagues in a bank after she failed to show up for work for three days after the weekend. This led to a manhunt.

After bank workers shared her photographs with police detectives, the investigators were sure the body they had found was Divya's.